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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I know and accept that. I do not need to hear a long list of what was done in other areas because I am aware of that. I accept it and I supported every additional measure that has been put in place. I am talking specifically about medical cards. I want to move on to the issue of pharmacies. If Mr. Flanagan can provide that note, that would be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: As I said at the start, I certainly welcome the provision in the Bill in respect of the rent-a-room scheme and the exemption from the financial assessment. That is worthwhile. On the pharmacy part of the Bill, if you want to call it that, I imagine that the core purpose of this is to expand the role and scope of how we manage medicines. It is essentially giving the Minister more power to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: One of the issues that has come up a lot over the past year – possibly longer but certainly the past 12 months – is there has been much more of a focus on medicine shortages and the possibility or need for what is called in other European countries a “serious shortage protocol”. No reference to that was made in the opening statement. How far advanced are we in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: This Bill is a necessary prerequisite to being able to put the protocol in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: For example, let us say a person is prescribed product A and product A is not available. Product B was not prescribed but is a similar type of product. Is it that we would then give flexibility to pharmacists to be able to prescribe similar products that ordinarily a person would have to get a prescription for but in that instance, that person would not? Is that essentially what-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I have two more questions. I imagine all of this is in the context of making better use of community pharmacy, and I support all of that. The Minister spoke about a minor ailment scheme several times last year. I know there was no additional funding in the budget to provide for it but I am not sure if it is something that can be delivered next year. Is it advanced and has it been costed?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I know the task force recommended it. I am talking about delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: The minor ailment scheme that was being looked at was broader than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: I welcome the work of the task force. What was really welcome was how quickly it did its work and reported back with very strong recommendations that I think we would all support. One of the things that the Pharmacy Union has been calling for for a long number of years is the concept of chief pharmaceutical officer. If we had a chief pharmaceutical officer, one could argue that we would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: Who made the judgment it is not critical?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: At the moment, there is no Government plan or policy to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: No heckling.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department's offer of a two-storey modular unit for a school (details supplied) will impact the school's application to build on adjacent land recently purchased for her Department by Waterford City and County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47858/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: It is a fact.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: The reps are getting that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: That is misleading.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: It is good that the Minister raised the issue of the review and the changes being proposed, with which I agree. In terms of the report the Minister received following the independent review, I understand a working group was established. We have not had any contact with that working group and nor, it seems, has the author of the report had any contact with the Department or any officials...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, line 4, after “writing” to insert the following: “, or by any other manner and in any such system as may be prescribed by the Minister in accordance with subsection (6),”. I am not sure if the Minister read the pre-legislative report the committee forwarded to him following its deliberations. One of the recommendations from...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

David Cullinane: I agree with some of what the Minister said. The difficulty we have, as committee members, is that we can only do our job from our perspective. We made it very clear in the early stages of our work on this Bill that there were issues for the Joint Committee on Justice and other committees but we can only do our work. That is why, when I crafted the amendment, its purpose was that whatever...